Hahaha, man, I didn't realize that people will get so upset of what just happened. I feel bad now. Oh well. Thanks for those who loved it anyway!! I'm 'working' on my science portfolio and then going off to the movies to see Pirates of the Caribbean ; At world's end. For the third time! And……my friend sounded a bit serious when he said he needed to tell me something. But I really don't want to think about it right now.
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PaulRap Rapter: I'm planning on making more naru/hina moments. But not yet. And thanks!
Kirimori: Why, thank you ever so much! I was aiming for a bit of suspense. Didn't think I achieved it though. I'm so glad you do!
KitsuneyJenfnr: Yes! Cliffhanger! It's the only way for all you people to keep on reading my story! Tell me otherwise.
X-ForgottenAngel-XI :I Well, I guess you'll just find out now, huh? smiles
Coolgamer: Thanks!!! Well, they really do look alike, don't they?
I'm not telling: Aww, I'm sorry. You don't have to say that anymore if you don't wanna.
Immortal-Sacrifice: Well, I guess you have the right to say that. But…what for again? For making them take away Naruto? Or, Because I left it at a cliffhanger? And don't worry, I'm planning to make this last for a while.
G 52 Goodman: It would be interesting wouldn't it? But I already have a plan for that, just not in this chapter. So please continue to read. PLEASE!
Kyubbi-kun: Hahaha, you're the second person to tell me that!
Kichi-san: You're the third!! (look above)
"We need you to come with us." Repeated Tsunade.
Arashi averted his eyes to look at the woman. "Strange, isn't it? That there is so many of you."
Tsunade narrowed her eyes, "Why is that?"
"Who is it that you're looking for?" Arashi asked.
Tsunade smirked, "How about you tell us?"
"A criminal?" Arashi questioned, trying to toy around.
"Not quite." Tsunade said firmly, "If you don't mind stepping into my office, we can discuss your staying here."
Arashi thought for a bit, "…I see no harm in doing so."
"Are you going to be alright, Naruto?" Sakura asked as the three genin stopped on a branch.
"I…I think so." Naruto said quietly.
"Who was he?" Sakura asked.
"I..." Naruto started, "…I don't know."
"Idiot." Said Sasuke.
"What did you say?!?" Naruto flared, spinning his head towards Sasuke.
"I said, 'idiot.'" Sasuke sighed.
"Listen! I don't need that crap from you right now!!" Naruto shouted.
"Shhhhh. We should keep it down. We don't want to catch any attention." Sakura hushed.
"Agreed." Sasuke said, crossing his arms as Sakura drooled since he agreed with her.
Naruto lowered his head, thinking of all the possibilities of what could happen next.
I don't know who he is…maybe some criminal or some outcast. Who could he be? And what's up with this name…ARASHI. It doesn't seem to ring any bells. Arghh…come on, Naruto! Think! THINK!
"Are you sure you're going to ok?" Sakura questioned, feeling Naruto's forehead. "You're getting a fever. We should get you home so that you can rest."
"I'll be alright, Sakura. I'll be fine." Naruto gently brushed her hand off.
"No, you won't! It's not good to push yourself! You have to get some rest! Come on, Sasuke and I will take care of you." Sakura declared.
"Now wait a second-" Sasuke started, but Sakura grabbed his hand along with Naruto's and went off.
"Remember, we're a team. We have to help each other out! That's what Kakashi-sensei taught us!" Sakura smiled back at her teammates.
Naruto couldn't help but feel better and gave his toothy grin. Sasuke grunted, but gave a small smile also. Sakura smiled with blush in her cheeks as she saw her two friends.
"So, Arashi, or should I say…Kurosaki(I'll explain next chapter)…you were in the battle against the Kyuubi, correct?" Tsunade questioned, as she leaned against the back of her office chair.
"…correct." Arashi stated.
"Well, I have no sort of examination for memory loss, but I can check that 'scar' of yours." Tsunade said getting up from her chair.
Arashi sat calmly in his chair opposite from her. He raised a brow as she stood right in front of him. There was a long silence until Tsunade finally broke it.
"Well??" Tsunade said impatiently tapping her foot, "Anything else you wanna tell me? Or are you going to show me that 'scar'?"
"I'd rather not." Arashi said waving his arms in front of him. "Is that alright?"
Tsunade narrowed her eyes, "Then how am I supposed to know that you're not lying?"
"Trust, Lady Tsunade. Trust." Arashi said in a nervous tone.
Tsunade was thinking like a detective, putting the spotlight on him, so that he might get nervous and spill everything out. And that wasn't working very well.
Alright…he tells me a war story, then says that he has a scar to prove it. BUT refuses to show it to me…am I supposed to believe that? Or maybe he feels insecure about showing his injury to me…there's gotta be some loop-hole in this situation. First, I'm not totally convinced of his story…I should experiment. Then decide what to do next…
Arashi stayed silent as Tsunade thought to herself. He turned around to look at the gray-haired shinobi, who was standing in the corner of the room, also silent. When he did, Kakashi only shrugged.
"Alright then, I've run out of questions. Do you have any Kakashi?" Tsunade asked.
Kakashi thought for a bit, then shook his head. "None. You've already asked all the questions that I could think up of."
Really? Thought Arashi, a bit surprised.
Tsunade smirked, "Thought so. So lets go on with the questioning, shall we?"
Wha? But who else?
"Shizune!" Tsunade called out.
"Yes, ma'am?" Shizune said coming in through the door with a clip-board in her hand.
She's going to question me?
"Please summon Jiraiya for me." Tsunade commanded.
WHA???
Shizune frowned (confused) then slowly turned to see Arashi trying to hold back his nervous sweat. (A/N: Haha, I don't know how Arashi would act to this, maybe calm and collected, but it would be funny to see him get nervous like this at least once, right?) Shizune then looked up to Tsunade, who had a brow raised, but had a bit of a smirk too.
"Well, go on now, Shizune." Tsunade said.
"Yes." Shizune said and left the room.
"Naruto! Go in!" Sakura exclaimed as she was shoving the blonde into his apartment. Sasuke only sighing of to the side.
"Let me have a go." Sasuke ordered, as Sakura nodded and moved out of the way. Sasuke then punched Naruto right in the gut. Naruto let out a gasp as the wind was knocked out of him.
"Sa-Sasuke! I don't thin you should have done that…" Sakura said as she walked over to the unconscious Naruto laying flat on the ground. "Great…now we have to carry him."
As Sakura left one of Naruto's arms, Sasuke picked him up and slung him over his shoulder, only to stumble a bit, "God…he should lay off the ramen."
As they walked over to his room they couldn't help but noticed that his apartment was actually pretty neat. Then as they approached the front of the bedroom door, Sakura reached out and turned the knob, only to jump back as the door fell off its hinges and falt on the floor.
"W-wha?" Sakura stammered.
Sasuke only sighed and shook his head. He walked past her and quickly placed him in bed.
"Quickly, Sasuke. Go get some cold water and a towel." Sakura said feeling Naruto's forehead.
Sasuke left the room and into the kitchen. Sakura quietly and patiently sat next to Naruto's side, listening to the rustle of dishes in the kitchen.
"God damnit." Sakura heard Sasuke's voice from the kitchen.
She quickly got up and walked to the door way. "What's wrong?"
"I'm guessing this guy doesn't pay his bills." Sasuke said trying to turn on the sink faucet.
Sakura sweat dropped, "No water?"
"I'll be back with some ice then." Sasuke said going out the front door. "Try to find a way to cool down his fever until I get back."
"Alright." Sakura said making her way back to Naruto's room.
As she stood there in front of Naruto, Sakura pondered the possibilities on how she should cool him down.
"Well…" Sakura said, "I guess I should take off that jacket off his."
Sakura then bent over Naruto and started to unzip his jacket. Naruto twitched a bit as she rolled him over from side to side, trying to get his arms out of the sleeves. She then folded his jacket and placed it on a chair that was located in the corner of the room.
"Should I take off his shirt?" Sakura blushed, "Maybe I shouldn't…would it make me a pervert?...Gah, but he has a fever, I should. And I'm only doing it because of that."
Sakura then lifted Naruto up and lifted his arms so that she could pull his arms through.
I wish this was Sasuke…
As her arm brushed against his forehead, Sakura gasped as she felt his temperature.
His burning up! This isn't good, maybe I should take him to the hospital. Ah, but what about Sasuke. Oh…
She then threw the shirt on the ground and went to turn on the fan. She then rushed to see if there was any available water anywhere in the kitchen.
"Why don't you at least have water bottles?!" Sakura exclaimed under her breathe.
She then rushed to try the sink herself. Come on…come on, come on. She turned the knob on and off repeat ably. "Why don't you just turn on for this one bit!!"
As soon as she shouted that, a huge leak sprung from the faucet and sprayed in her face. She gasped and tried to stop it by covering her hands on the crack, but it was no use. It was just too huge. Sakura then frowned and rushed to one of the cabinets and grabbed a bowl and placed it under the leak which now became a fountain or sort of spring. As soon as the bowl filled up, Sakura grabbed a towel and rushed to the bedroom. She quickly dabbed the towel in the bowl and folded it into a rectangle and placed it upon Naruto's forehead.
Sakura smiled warmly, water dripping of her clothes and face, as Naruto's face soon relaxed. She then took a deep breathe in and let it out. Only to jump at a shout.
"WHAT THE HELL??" Sasuke's voice was heard from the kitchen.
"Well…I guess that's done with my interview." Said Jiraiya as he crossed his arms smiling, "What makes you think this guy's the fourth?"
Tsunade grunted, "What makes you so sure he isn't?"
"Well sure, he has his cloak and kunais. But a lot of people have my novels as well." Jiraiya shrugged.
"You're absolutely right! There's only one difference…" Tsunade grinned then immediately started shouting, "YOU'RE BOOKS ARE IN STORES!!!!"
Jiraiya, Arashi, Kakashi and Shizune all covered their ears as she yelled.
"Of course! I can totally tell this guy is lying!" Jiraiya said.
"Really??" said Tsunade, Arashi, Kakashi, and Shizune asked in unison.
"Yes, he obviously got the Fourth's belongings from some traveling merchant. Anyone's belongings can mysteriously end up with those type of people. They can also be thieves. Or people just selling replicas of the real deal. The fourth was a pretty popular person." Jyraiya stated, making sound oh so obvious.
Tsunade's eye twitched. "You're kidding, right?"
"My novels end up with them all the time. People are even making a fake 'fourth' book and selling them, saying it's the real thing." Said Jiraiya.
"Really now??" Kakashi questioned, sounding interested.
"Yea, I read it myself. It's not that bad. But it's nothing compared to my works." Jiraiya stated proudly.
Tsunade slapped her forehead, "Enough! I've had it for today! You!" she pointed to Arashi, "I want you to stay in this village until further notice. I will have you under surveillance, so don't think about doing anything funny!!! UNDERSTOOD?" Tsunade exclaimed.
Arashi nervously nodded.
"AND YOU!" she then turned to Jiraiya, "Go and make you're stupid books-"
"Novels."
"I don't care!!! Just leave my office!!" Tsunade exclaimed. "Kakashi!"
"Yes, Lady Tsunade?" Kakashi step forth.
"…where's you're team?" Tsunade asked.
"I though they were here." Kakashi said.
There was a silence…
"Oh great…" Kakashi sighed and both he and Arashi disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Shizune!!!"
"Y-yes, ma'am??" Shizune stammered.
"…please bring me some sake…"Tsunade sighed as she collapsed in her chair.
"Right away."
"Jeez, I leave for ten minutes and I see you're trying to flood the place!!!!!!!" Sasuke exclaimed, trying to get close enough to the faucet only to be pushed back by the spray of water.
"I was only trying to help!" Sakura said placing her hands to guard her face from the water.
After about half an hour of trying to reach the leek, Sasuke finally got to it and tried to turn the knob. "It wont stop!!"
"Did you try under the sink?!?" Sakura exclaimed squinting her eyes.
Sasuke opened the cabinet that lead to under the sink and looked around for any lose screws. "I don't see anything wrong!!!!!"
"Maybe we should get some help?!?" Sakura shouted as the leak became bigger every minute. It seemed that the longer you wait the more of a shower storm the leak appeared to be.
"Its no use!! Go and get Kakashi-sensei!!" Sasuke shouted back as another leak sprouted from one of the pipes.
"WHAT???" Sakura yelled, she couldn't hear anything from all the rush of water coming down from above her.
"I SAID, GO AND GET KAKASHI!!!" Sasuke shouted. Another leak sprouted.
"WHAT ABOUT KAKASHI?????" Sakura shouted back.
Sasuke ignored that last questioned and started to cover up all the leaks that seemed to sprout one after another.
I'm a ninja for God's sake…I can't even stop one , alright, FIVE leaks? Thought Sasuke as another leak sprung up
Six!!!!
"What's going on…?" Naruto came into the kitchen rubbing his eye, still half-asleep.
"Oh, Naruto." Sakura smiled nervously, "haha, nothing much, are you feeling better?"
Naruto stared at Sakura as she grinned, with his eyes half open after a few moments of him being dazed, Naruto looked down as his feet noticing that they were about an inch under water. Then he looked up at Sakura then to practically exploding sink and then Sasuke wrestling the new sprouting ones.
"Wha…….?" Naruto said calmly, then his eyes grew bigger.
He stared back at Sakura and then back at his feet, which were now three inches under water, "WHAT THE?!?!?!?!?!?!"
"Hahaha." Sakura laughed nervously still shielding her face from the spraying water.
"GAH! WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED!?!?!?!?" Naruto said trying to battle off the water to try to get to Sasuke.
"Maybe I should get Kakashi-sensei…" Sakura thought out loud.
"GEEEEE! YOU THINK?!?!?!?!?!" Sasuke shout back.
"No need." Said a voice from behind Sakura.
Sakura spun around and grinned, "Kakashi-sensei!!!!"
"WHAT THE????" Kakashi stared at the water raining from the faucet sink, Sasuke fighting the sprouting leeks, Naruto fighting the water and Sakura smiling at him.
"You know what, I'm pretty sure I don't want to know." Said Arashi who was standing next to Kakashi.
Sakura turned her head to stare at this new man.
So this is the man…
"I'm think we should help them out." Arashi smiled at Sakura.
Sakura nodded and turned to see Naruto yelling at Sasuke to turn certain screws tighter.
Well, that was tiring. I'm sleepy. Oh, and sorry for the wait. I have finals this week and I have to study. This is my last week of school and then SUMMER VACATION. And another reason I took a while is that I started typing down the rough draft and then, as I read it over again, I felt disgusted with it, so I deleted all of it and started over fresh. Oh well. Oh and just to keep you guys thinking…or give you guys some sort of clue/hint. Why do you think Jiraiya gave that sort of dumb idea? Maybe he wants to let Arashi go off free? Maybe he knows something about Arashi that Tsunade doesn't? Did he notice something??? Who knows…I DO!!! Well, see you next chapter!!!!!! More will be explained!!!!!!